Hands-on Activities

Meet Botley, the code to fun! As the newest member of the Learning Resources family, Botley introduces coding in an easy, friendly way. Children as young as 5 can learn to code with Botley, and with his advanced features, he'll grow with them for many play-filled years to come. Botley is ready to use right out of the box – he'll have kids coding in minutes. And that's not all that makes Botley unique; he's 100% screen-free, and the only coding robot that includes a 45-piece set!

Here are just some of the fun interactive features Botley offers:

Detect objects – and avoid them!

Follow looping commands

Navigate obstacle courses

Follow black lines

Botley also has additional hidden features to unlock!

Your child will get to learn early STEM skills while playing and having fun. Botley teaches the basics of coding through active play, completely screen free. Perfect for promoting critical thinking and problem solving skills

Botley can detect objects and be programmed to go around objects with if/then logic. He can also follow looping commands, take on obstacle courses, follow black lines and has hidden features to unlock!

Help Botley™ set off some crashing chain reactions with Botley the Coding Robot Action Challenge Accessory Set from Learning Resources. This interactive 41-piece accessory set contains everything kids need to set up STEM-inspired obstacle challenges for Botley to navigate. Kids can follow the instructions inside the included Activity Guide to create 9 obstacle challenges filled with falling dominos, rolling balls, and swinging hammers, or design their own courses using critical thinking skills. Once everything's in place, kids simply code Botley with the desired steps, press transmit on the remote programmer, and watch him get things moving! In addition to building early coding skills, each obstacle course run also introduces fun hands-on lessons in early physics concepts including force and motion. All pieces in the Botley the Coding Robot Action Challenge Accessory Set are compatible with other Botley accessories, making the possible obstacle course builds as countless as they are fun.

Meet Botley, the code to fun! As the newest member of the Learning Resources family, Botley introduces coding in an easy, friendly way. Children as young as 5 can learn to code with Botley, and with his advanced features, he'll grow with them for many play-filled years to come. Botley is ready to use right out of the box – he'll have kids coding in minutes. And that's not all that makes Botley unique; he's 100% screen-free, and the only coding robot that includes a 77-piece activity set!

Bring coding to the classroom! The Botley the Coding Robot Classroom Set from Learning Resources contains everything teachers need to introduce early coding fundamentals to students as young as 5. Ready to use right out of the box, Botley teaches coding lessons that grow with students' skills though 100% screen-free play—no app, tablet or phone required! After they've mastered basic coding commands, students can use Botley's advanced features—including object detection, looping commands, and a black-line-following mode—to help him navigate his way through obstacle courses, solve chain-reaction puzzles, or travel around the classroom. In addition to building early coding skills, Botley also helps students master logic, critical thinking, and other STEM skills.

The 239-piece Botley the Coding Robot Classroom Set comes with two 77-piece Botley the Coding Robot Activity Sets, two additional 45-piece Botley the Coding Robots, and one 41-piece Botley the Coding Robot Action Challenge Accessory Set.

100% screen-free coding—no app, tablet or phone required!

239-piece set includes four Botley the Coding Robots

Discover advanced features including object detection, looping commands, and black-line following

The Brackitz Bugz Playpark has 47 pieces including a motorized vibrating bug and directions for building over 20 play parks and obstacles. Race your motorized bug through crazy obstacles like the Toppling Tower, Super Spinner or make your own. Every race and playpark combination is different - The possibilities are endless. No helmet required.

This is the BIG ONE! It gives you Structures, Pulleys & Cranks, Wheels & Axles, and Gears, Sprockets, & Chains all in one. It's ideal for library makerspaces and creative spaces in classrooms. It's big enough to share across classrooms and it's a BIG launching pad for special challenges and schoolwide design/build projects and contests.

Brackitz is the only construction toy that lets you design any driving machine you can imagine. Anything.

The Brackitz Driver Set includes 43 pieces and directions for ten driving machines - from a spinning gyro-copter to a space rover to a wind-up blaster. With wheels, axles, hubs and rubber-band drivetrains, engineers of all ages can design and build machines that spin, explore space, fly through the air, or drive crazy fast. No driver's license required!

Our newest module, Gears, Sprockets & Chains expands the “engineering go power” of the base Structures module. Gears and chains (like the ones in bicycles) are simple machines. When students learn to design and build with gears they gain hands-on understanding of the principles of motion. Five PreK-6 lessons are available for specific use with this module. Each activity is focused on solving real-world challenges using creativity and problem-based learning approach.

Unique, connect-anywhere Brackitz attach to traditional planks at any angle, enabling builders of all ages to construct everything from small-scale builds to larger-than-life gravity-defying, 3-D structures - with their friends or alone - no limits. With plastic planks and rotating pieces, the Inventor 100 Piece Set is a great for larger builds and enables anyone to create builds with moving parts! Versatile, durable, and portable, award-winning Brackitz brings real-life art, math, science, architecture, and engineering principles into play.

The Brackitz Pulley Set includes 77 pieces and directions for 8 contraptions - from a moving draw bridge to a 4-foot flying zip line to a bucket escalator. With pulleys, axles, hubs, hook, crank and string, engineers of all ages will have fun building and cranking contraptions that haul, lift, slide and move up/down. No hard hat required

Add the Pulleys & Cranks stack to your Structures Kits and students can explore how to make things that will haul, lift, slide and move up and down, as part of STEM and STEAM learning. Students can build zip lines that stretch more than 4 feet in length! Includes pulleys, axles, hubs, hook, cranks and string. The budding engineers in your classes will have fun building and cranking contraptions that haul, lift, slide and move up and down. Find activities and resources in the Lesson Plans & Resources section.

Students can design and build an endless variety of structures, from skyscrapers to submarines, dinosaurs to storybook characters using the kit's multi-use planks, rotating pieces and connecting hubs. 320 pieces.